Alerts at Health Analyzer

I am Health analyzer available in Central admin is also a library. I set alert at this health analyzer. I received first alert that "Alert have been set up" but after any change in health analyzer I am not getting any email alert for the same.
Is this is a known issue in Health analyzer ?  kindly help me to to set up right alert through powershell or the out of the box way..
Santosh sethi

Hi Santosh,
According to your description, my understanding is that you cannot get alerts in Healthy Analyzer in Central Administration.
Per my knowledge, there is no Immediate Alert timer job working for the Central Administration web application, so the alert email cannot be sent.
It is by design.
You can reset the property of the Health Analyzer List link with stsadm commands to see if the alerts can work.
Please refer to the link below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/6c42525d-6cab-4232-912c-b500bdbde672/sharepoint-foundation-central-admin-not-receiving-health-analyzer-alerts?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
Best regards.
Thanks
Victoria Xia
TechNet Community Support

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